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11 November 2024: Researchers from CLE conducted a workshop on “Text-to-Speech Synthesis and Speech Corpus Development” at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, on November 6-7, 2024, under the project "DigSAL: Addressing the Digital Divide for South Asian Languages," funded by DAAD Germany. |
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8 November 2024: The CLE team visited the Department of Computer Science at University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka from 28th October to 1st November, 2024. During this visit Ms. Sahar Rauf presented “Developing NLP Applications for Regional Languages”, discussed data development progress, and finalized the Tamil Phonetic Inventory for Tamil Text-to-Speech Synthesis under the project "DigSAL: Addressing the Digital Divide for South Asian Languages," funded by DAAD Germany. |
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30 September 2024: Center for Language Engineering (CLE), Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS), University of Engineering and Technology (UET), in collaboration with the Society for Natural Language Processing (SNLP), is conducting CLE Post-Graduate Certificate in “Text to Speech Synthesis & Speech Corpus Development” on 15th -16th November 2024 and 22nd - 23rd November 2024 at Main Auditorium, University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Lahore. Registration Deadline: 28th October, 2024 |
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27 September 2024: Dr. Farah Adeeba, Assistant Professor, UET, presented on “Harnessing NLP for Safer Cities: AI’s Role in Law Enforcement and Public Security” at the 2nd Conference on “Tech-Driven Policing: Shaping the Future of Law Enforcement”, organized by the Al-Biruni Center of Research and Innovation, Punjab Safe Cities Authority (PSCA) on 26th Sep 2024. |
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28 March 2024: Tajziakaar: Urdu Broadcast Media Analytics System
featuring local language speech recognition, speaker identification, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for video,
Tajziakaar empowers users to delve deep into Urdu content. Allowing custom reports like Audio Transcription ,Subtitle Generation,
Keyword based search, Trending topics identification, Speaker based search and Content summarization.
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12 December 2022: Dr. Azhar Ali Shah, Professor in ICT and Pro Vice Chancellor of Sindh University visited CLE. During the visit, Ms. Sahar Rauf and Mr. Zeeshan Javed presented on-going projects and work on Urdu Language processing. |
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5 December 2022: Representatives from Punjab Higher Education Commission (PHEC) visited the Center for Language Engineering (CLE). During the meeting, Dr. Kashif Javed presented the first year progress report of the project titled “Empowering Public Policy on Socio-Economic Issues through Citizens Sentiment Analysis”. |
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28 November 2022: A contract has been signed between Center for Language Engineering (CLE) and Forum for Language Initiatives (FLI) to enhance the Nafees Nastaleeq Font by adding 43 additional characters. These new characters are selected from different languages spoken in Northern Pakistan. |
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1 February 2022: CLE has signed a letter of exchange with Lahore College for Women University. The purpose of this collaboration is to offer them free access to use Parakh for checking Urdu plagiarism and authenticity of their research work |
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24 January 2022: CLE has released Urdu Stemmer Service. This service removes affixes from the text to extract its stemmed form. |
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20 December 2021: Al-Dirasat Al-Islamiyyah, Physical and Computational Sciences, and Life and Environmental Sciences are now available at Tehqeeqat: A Research Indexing System, a project funded by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC). Tehqeeqat is hosting research journals in a wide array of Pakistani languages. |
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8 November 2021: Urdu Text to Speech (TTS) V1.1 has been launched. It enables the computer to read out Urdu content in human-sounding voice available in digital forms such as emails, websites and documents. In this version, a prosody model has been implemented to improve naturalness of the voice. |
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1 November 2021: 215+ HEC recognized research journals are now indexed at Tehqeeqat from the diversified disciplines of sciences, applied sciences, social sciences, arts, humanities and management sciences. Besides English and Urdu, Tehqeeqat hosts research journals in a wide spectrum of languages including: Arabic, Brahui, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi and Sindhi. |
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26 October 2021: Al-Aijaz Research Journal of Islamic Studies, International Research Journal of Management and Social Sciences, International Research Journal of Education and Innovation and Al-Khadim Research Journal of Islamic Culture and Innovation are now available at Tehqeeqat: A Research Indexing System, a project funded by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC). Tehqeeqat is hosting research journals in a wide array of Pakistani languages. |
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4 October 2021: CLE, KICS, UET, Lahore has successfully launched Urdu Plagiarism Detection System (UPDS) with the name of Parakh to identify and check the instances of plagiarism within Urdu content.
The purpose of Urdu Plagiarism Detection System (UPDS) is to help Urdu academia and publishing industries in Pakistan and around the globe to check the authenticity of the claimed original work. |
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28 September 2021: Team of researcher from CLE are going to present a conference paper titled: “A Multi-Genre Urdu Broadcast Speech Recognition System,” in 24th Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA, held in Singapore from 18-20 November, 2021.
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20 September 2021: Journal of Applied Economics and Business Studies, Pakistan Journal of Language Studies and New Horizon are now available at Tehqeeqat: A Research Indexing System, a project funded by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC). Tehqeeqat is hosting research journals in a wide array of Pakistani languages.
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17 September 2021: The honorable Vice-Chancellor Dr. Mansoor Sarwar presented certificates and gifts to CLE researchers Mr. Ehsan-ul-Haq (Manager Research), Mr. Muhammad Zain Ali (Research Officer) and Mr. Erbaz Khan (Research Officer) on their successful completion of "Big Data General Level" training offered by IIOE (International Institute of Online Education).
IIOE multilevel training series (Big Data General Level) was kicked off on September 28,2020 where total of 170 participants from across Pakistan participated and out of them 45 completed the training. From UET Lahore, total of 35 resources participated and 11 of them successfully completed the training.
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6 September 2021: 200 HEC recognized research journals are now indexed at Tehqeeqat from the diversified disciplines of sciences, applied sciences, social sciences, arts, humanities and management sciences. Besides English and Urdu, Tehqeeqat hosts research journals in a wide spectrum of languages including: Arabic, Brahui, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi and Sindhi. Their digital archives of 2150+ research articles can be accessed and download from Tehqeeqat website. |
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23 August 2021: Tasdeeq (Urdu language journal), Al-Dalili (Social Sciences Journal) and Pakistan Journal of
Criminology are now available at Tehqeeqat: A Research Indexing System, project funded by
Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC). Tehqeeqat is hosting research journals in a
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29 October 2020: Representatives from Hamza Foundation Academy visited CLE. Hamza Foundation Academy for the Deaf is a project of Hamza Foundation which is a registered Welfare Trust Organization. During the meeting, potential for collaboration was discussed regarding the development of standardized Urdu testing for hearing-impaired community in Pakistan. |
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18 September 2020: Urdu Text to Speech (TTS) V1.1 has been launched. It enables the computer to read out Urdu content in human-sounding voice available in digital forms such as emails, websites and documents. In this version, prosody model has been implemented to improve naturalness of the voice. |
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7 September 2020: Al-Burz (Brahui language journal), Journal of Managerial Sciences (journal published in English language) and Noor-e-Maarfat (multilingual journal) are now available in Tehqeeqat: A Research Indexing System. Tehqeeqat is hosting research journals in a wide array of Pakistani languages. Indexed Journals List. |
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14 August 2020: CLE NLP Webservices can now be accessed for FREE. CLE Webservices provide APIs for processing Urdu speech, text and image processing that can be used for development of Urdu apps, websites and services. |
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07 August 2020: CLE is pleased to launch Tehqeeqat, a platform dedicated to the online visibility and promotion of Pakistani research journals. Currently, many HEC recognized research journals are indexed in Tehqeeqat that are published in Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Brahui, Punjabi, Sindhi, English and other languages. Research journals and articles can be searched by using relevant keywords in different languages. |
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24 July 2020: CLE has launched V1.0 of Urdu Speech-To-Text Service, developed using state-of-the-art deep neural networks. In its current release, the model has been enhanced to recognise spontaneous Urdu-English code-switched speech. |
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CLE has been awarded a one year extension for the project titled, “Urdu Text-to-Speech: Integrating Prosody of Emotions”, by DAAD Germany. This project is being conducted by CLE in collaboration with the University of Konstanz, Germany. |
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CLE has been awarded a project titled, “A Digital Diachronic Urdu Corpus from the 19th and Early 20th Centuries”, by DAAD Germany. This project will be conducted by CLE in collaboration with the University of Konstanz, Germany. |
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Research team from CLE visited the University of Konstanz, Germany from 23rd September to 26th September 2019 under the DAAD funded project titled, “Urdu Text-to-speech (TTS) system: Exploring Prosody of Emotions”. The purpose of the visit was to present and discuss the findings of the emotional speech corpus of Urdu, which was annotated and analyzed using multiple phonetic and phonological parameters for emotions such as happiness, sadness, and anger. The project aims to improve the naturalness of the existing Urdu text-to-speech (TTS) system by integrating the capability of synthesizing emotional speech. |
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Research team from CLE visited TCS Head Office, Karachi to present the progress of the project Automatic Pakistani Postal Address Recognition and Parcel Routing funded by TDF-HEC. |
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Faculty members and students of M.Phil Applied Linguistics from English Department, University of Management and Technology (UMT), Lahore visited CLE on 11th December, 2018. Researchers from CLE presented the current research projects being conducted at the Center and future research dimensions in the Applied Linguistics area. |
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Research team from CLE presented "Urdu SAPI voice" at the 5th National Conference on Development of Urdu Software, on occasion of International Day of Persons with Disabilities. This conference was organized by Pakistan Disabled Foundation (PDF) on 3rd December, 2018. |
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MoU signed between Desider Labs Limited (Desider) and CLE, KICS, UET, Lahore, on 4th September,2018. The aim of this MoU is to formalize an organizational link between the two organizations to undertake joint projects i.e. Consultancy provided by CLE, Project development outsourced to CLE and use of CLE Web Services. |
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Research team from CLE visited University of Konstanz, Germany from 18th June to 22nd June, 2018 under the DAAD funded project titled, “Urdu Text-to-speech (TTS) system: Exploring Prosody of Emotions”. The aim of the project meeting was to share and discuss the results of a prototype corpus on Urdu intonation of various emotions such as happiness, sadness and anger in order to enhance the naturalness of Urdu text-to-speech (TTS) system. |
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Professor Dr. Sarmad Hussain has received President's Pride of Performance Award on 23rd March 2018 for his distinguished contributions in the area of local language computing. |
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A delegation from Seoul National University, South Korea visited KICS & CLE on 6th March, 2018. Dr. Kukjin Chun, who is the regional director of IEEE Region 10 Asia and Asia Pacific, represented the university. Researchers from CLE demonstrated their speech processing applications to the delegation. |
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CLE and Lahore Grammar School, Johar Town, Lahore signed a License Agreement to use Urdu speech files synthesised by CLE Urdu TTS, on February 9, 2018. This agreement enables the school to integrate Urdu speech files with an RFID based student identity card solution being used at school dismissal time. |
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Research team from CLE demonstrated the Urdu SAPI Voice integrated with NVDA Screen Reader at the Pakistan Foundation Fighting Blindness (PFFB), Islamabad on 18th January, 2018. Following this demonstration, feedback was gathered regarding its usability and enhancement from the visually impaired members of PFFB for further improvement. |
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Dr. Sean Pue, Associate Professor of Hindi Language and South Asian Literature and Culture at Department of Linguistics and Languages, College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University, USA visited CLE on 4th December, 2017 and presented his research work focused on “Digital Humanities and Urdu Poetry". Researchers from CLE also demonstrated their projects to Dr. Sean Pue. |
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CLE team presented the current research projects being conducted at the Center and future research dimensions in the NLP area to Dr. Tania Habib's Speech Processing Class of Fall 2017, MS (Computer Science & Engineering), UET, Lahore on 22nd November, 2017. |
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A delegation from Germany, visited CLE, on 12th October 2017. Ms. Farah Adeeba presented the research being conducted at the Center and areas of future collaboration were discussed. |
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Dr. Nadir Durrani, QCRI, Qatar visited CLE on 28th August, 2017 and discussed research opportunities related to Natural Language Processing (NLP) projects with CLE team. |
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Research team from CLE attended a workshop on Prosodic Annotation of Speech held at University of Konstanz, Germany from 10th July to 16th July, 2017 under the project, “Text-to-Speech for Urdu: Understanding Intonation”, funded by DAAD Germany. The aim of the workshop was to share and discuss the Urdu tonal inventory, understand the complexity of Syntax-Prosody interface and annotate Urdu Speech Corpus accordingly. |
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CLE is pleased to announce the release of “CLE Urdu Digest IOB Tagged Corpus”. The corpus contains a hundred thousand words of written Urdu language from a wide range of domains. The corpus has been designed for linguistic research and/or the development of language products. It covers a range of subjects including education, health, politics, international affairs, sports, business, humor and literature. |
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CLE is pleased to announce the release of CLE Pakistan District Names Speech Corpus collected from native speakers of seven languages i.e. Balochi, Brahvi, Pashto, Punjabi, Seraiki , Sindhi and Urdu.
The data is recorded through mobile channel at a sampling rate of 8 KHz and digitization rate of 16 bits. Gender and district of origin of each speaker is also provided with the corpus. Age of the speakers ranges from 18 to 50 years. The data was collected in outdoor and office environments. The corpus has been cleaned and verified by expert linguists. The data is annotated at word level using CI SAMPA which is mapped on the Urdu IPA symbols.
This speech corpus is useful for developing speaker and accent independent speech recognition technologies. |
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Research team from CLE, visited the University of Gujrat, Gujrat on 6th October, 2016, to conduct the first meeting of the project "Translation of Provincial Legislation (primary and delegated) of the Punjab in Urdu Language." |
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Research team from CLE, visited Pakistan Foundation Fighting Blindness, Islamabad, on 8th September, 2016 to demonstrate the updated CLE Urdu Screen Reader 1.0.0 and conducted usability testing. |
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Research team from CLE attended a workshop on Prosodic Annotation of Speech held at University of Konstanz, Germany from 15th July to 25th July, 2016 under the project, “Text-to-Speech for Urdu: Understanding Intonation”, funded by DAAD Germany. The aim of the workshop was to share and discuss the Intonation Marking Guidelines, understand the complexity of Syntax-Prosody interface and design Urdu Speech Corpus for annotation accordingly. |
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Research team from CLE, visited Pakistan Foundation Fighting Blindness, Islamabad, on 14th July, 2016. During their visit, they demonstrated the CLE Urdu Screen Reader 1.0.0 and members of visually impaired community tested the software and provided feedback. |
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Prof. Sajida Haider Vandal, ex-principal National College of Arts and CEO of THAAP, visited CLE on 23rd May, 2016. During her visit, she was presented the research being conducted at the center. |
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MoU signing ceremony between Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) Islamabad and Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Sciences (KICS), UET, Lahore, held at UET, Lahore on 24, March, 2016.
Dr. Ghulam Rasul, Director General, PMD and Dr. Fazal Ahmed Khalid, Vice Chancellor, UET, Lahore, signed a MoU between PMD and KICS- UET, Lahore. The aim of this MoU is to formalize the link between PMD and KICS and to promote training exchange, workshops and research collaboration in the areas of mutual interest. |
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CLE and University of Gujrat signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on September 10, 2015 which aims to formalize an academic link and develop a collaborative forum between the two institutions for conducting training and workshops, collaborative research and development of linguistic data. This news has also been covered in Jang editorial. |
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CLE in collaboration with Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), has deployed the mobile based weather information service covering 139 districts of Pakistan at local landline number of PMD, Islamabad. The deployment of this weather information service is a pioneering initiative towards providing weather updates in fast and easy way to local population of Pakistan. Launch ceremony of this service organized by CLE, held at PMD, Islamabad on 13th August, 2015. |
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Dr Sarmad Hussain and researchers from CLE attended a workshop on Prosodic Annotation of Speech held at University of Konstanz, Germany from 27th July to 31st July, 2015 under the project, “Text-to-Speech for Urdu: Understanding Intonation”, funded by DAAD Germany. The aim of the workshop was to share and discuss the Intonation Marking Guidelines, understand the complexity of Syntax-Prosody interface and design Urdu Speech Corpus for annotation accordingly. The researchers also attended a tutorial on intonation marking by German team. |
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Research team from CLE successfully demonstrated the Dialog Based Weather
Information System to the Director General, heads of departments,
researchers and staff after deployment of this service at the Pakistan
Meteorological Department (PMD), Islamabad on 26th May, 2015. |
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Research team from CLE demonstrated the first Urdu Screen Reader developed
by CLE at the Pakistan Foundation Fighting Blindness (PFFB), Islamabad on
26th May, 2015. Following this demonstration, feedback was gathered
regarding its use and enhancement from the visually impaired members of PFFB
for further improvement. After incorporation of feedback, Urdu screen reader
will be deployed at PFFB lab, in the upcoming months. |
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CLE research team in collaboration with Islamia University, Bahawalpur and Saraiki Area Study Centre (SASC), Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan conducted recording sessions from Saraiki speakers to cover accent variation in the Speech Corpus being developed for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) research. |
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Dr. Nadir Durrani, QCRI, Qatar visited CLE on 21st November, 2014 and presented his research work focused on "Statistical Machine Translation". |
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Dr. Tania Habib, and researchers from CLE, visited Pakistan Meteorological Department, Islamabad on 6th August, 2014. During their visit, they discussed various collaborative opportunities of using PMD data for projects of mutual interest. |
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Dr. Sarmad Hussain and Ms. Qurat-ul-Ain Akram (Team Lead, Urdu OCR project) will be teaching Optical Character Recognition module of Machine Learning Applications in Language Engineering course at the International Summer School in Advanced Language Engineering at Colombo, Sri Lanka. In addition, Ms. Benazir Mumtaz and Ms. Hina Khalid, researchers from CLE have also been selected to attend this summer school from 1st September-26th September, 2014. |
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Dr. Sarmad Hussain will be presenting at Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association
(APTLD) at Muscat, Oman on behalf of TF-AIDN. |
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CLE team participated in the Punjab Youth Festival Science and Technology Exhibition 2014 held at Lahore International Expo Centre from 28th February to 3rd March 2014. Details. |
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CLE is co-organizing the International Summer School in Advanced Language Engineering II in collaboration with University of Konstanz, Germany and the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2014. |
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ICANN is developing the Label Generation Ruleset (LGR) to
support Internationalized Domain Names (and their variants) for the Root
zone of the Domain Name System (DNS). Dr. Sarmad Hussain (chair) and Inam
Ullah (member) are participating in the Arabic Generation Panel seated to
develop the Arabic script part of the LGR as recently announced by ICANN. Details. |
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A. Sean Pue, Assistant Professor of Hindi Language and South Asian Literature and Culture, Michigan State University visited CLE on 27th December, 2013. During his visit, he was presented the research being conducted at the Center and areas of future collaboration were discussed. |
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ICANN invites interested individuals and experts from its stakeholder groups to volunteer for the Task Force on Arabic Script Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). Details. |
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CLE organized the prize distribution ceremony of e-DirAP Forum Competition titled, “Smart, new ways in using the Internet to make higher education in Pakistan a more interesting and worthwhile learning experience” at Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Sciences, UET, Lahore, on 6th June, 2013. This competition was jointly organized by CLE in collaboration with IEEE, UET Lahore’s students’ branch. |
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Dr. Sarmad Hussain invited to present on ICANN Middle East Engagement Strategy at Arab Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance Meeting in Dubai on 3-5 March 2013. |
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CLE is conducting a four months course on Spoken Urdu Certificate for Foreign Students enrolled in UET. Classes starting from 1st March, 2013, held on every Tuesday & Friday from 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, at Seminar Hall, Al- Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science. |
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Dr. Sarmad Hussain, conducted a session on Developing Linguistic Resources for Languages in Pakistan at Beaconhouse National University (BNU), Lahore, Pakistan, held on 13 February, 2012. |
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Dr. Sarmad Hussain, conducted a seminar on Urdu Phonetics and Phonology at Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore on 27th November, 2012. |
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The Urdu Linguistic Resources Development Project has been extended till 2013 by DAAD Germany. This project is a collaborative effort by CLE and University of Konstanz, Germany. The project focuses on the development of critical linguistic resources for Urdu to do grammatical and semantic analyses for further use in linguistics, psycholinguistic and computational work. |
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CLE has won a project titled 'Investigating the Long Term Residual Impact of
ICT Integration across Gender for a Sustainable Project Design' in Global
Research Competition 2012 organized by Global Development Network. It is
an 18 months long project and the total grant amount is USD 32,000. |
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CLE is conducting a Research Seminar Series on multidisciplinary topics related to Language Engineering on every Tuesday from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm, at Seminar Hall, Al- Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science. Details. |
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A delegation including the CEO, and Executive Director of a US based NGO;
Children of Tomorrow visited
CLE on 24th April 2012, to learn about CLE's
current research on integration of ICTs in rural schools of Pakistan. |
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CLE had organized training on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) from 16th to 20th April, 2012, at Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS), University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore. Details. |
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An Urdu text corpus distribution agreement has been signed between Urdu Digest and Center for Language Engineering, Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore at a meeting in Lahore. Details.
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Mr. Qaisar Khalid Mahmood, Research Assistant, CLE and M. Phil Scholar, Institute of Social and Cultural Studies (ISCS), University of the Punjab, has presented research paper titled... Details. |
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CLE team has participated in one day Symposium on Document Image Analysis held at LUMS, on 20th March, 2012. Head CLE, Dr. Sarmad Hussain, was the one of the speakers of the workshop. He talked on topic Challenges in Developing Urdu Nastaleeq OCR Systems. |
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Mother Tongue and Heritage for Education and Research (MOTHER), a civil society organization, has been re-organized at a meeting in Islamabad. Representatives of 11 language communities attended the meeting and vowed to work together for upholding the cause of the organization. Details. |
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The government of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa has decided to establish a Regional Languages Authority for the purpose of teaching and promotion of regional languages in the Province of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A bill has already been passed in the KPK provincial assembly.
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mLab project preparation meeting was held at CLE on 30th December, 2011. The meeting was attended by representatives from all the partner organizations including PSEB, KICS, NCA, Indus Valley and chaired by Zia Imran, Managing Director Pakistan Software Export Board. Details.
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Admin and Accounts Staff, CLE attended the training on The World Bank Procurement and Implementation Issues, facilitated by Mr. Gurcharan Singh, Senior Procurement Specialist Transport, Water and Information Communication Technology (TWICT), World Bank on 3rd Jan, 2012 at Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS), UET, Lahore. |
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Mr. Qaisar Khalid, Research Assistant , CLE and M.Phil student, Institute of Social and Cultural Studies ( ISCS), Punjab University, Lahore was nominated to attend... Details. |
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Researchers at CLE contribute to the global efforts to deploy domain names in local languages. Dr. Sarmad Hussain has been a member of the WHOIS Review Team constituted by ICANN, and is one of the authors of its recently published WHOIS Review Draft Report, published for public comment. Details. |
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Researchers at CLE contribute to the global efforts to deploy domain names in local languages on the Internet. Dr. Sarmad Hussain, the coordinator of the Arabic Script Case Study team for ICANN's TLD Variant Issues Project, and one of the author of Arabic Case Study Team Issues Report. Details. |
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Researchers at CLE contribute to the global efforts to deploy domain names in local languages on the Internet. Dr. Sarmad Hussain (selected as the coordinator of the Arabic Script team) and Huda Sarfraz have been contributing to this effort as members of a global team working to identify relevant issues for languages using the Arabic script. More Details [1][2]. |
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The closing ceremony of Subh-e-Nau project was held on Thursday, 28th of April 2011 at APWA Punjab, Lahore to appreciate the efforts of the workshop participant and to view the digital stories. |
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The Department of Information Technology and Telecom of Bhuttan (DITT), Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology of Pakistan (KICS-UET), Language Technology Kendra of Nepal (LTK), ... Details. |
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CLE is participating in Fourth International Conference on Open-Source Systems and Technologies (ICOSST-2010) organized by Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS). ICOSST-2010 will be held at KICS, University of Engineering & Technology (UET) on December 22-24, 2010. |
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CLE is participating in 13th Sustainable Development Conference (SDC) organized by Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) from 21 to 23 December 2010 in Islamabad, Pakistan. This year’s Conference is titled ‘“Peace and Sustainable Development in South Asia: The Way Forward”. |
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CLE is participating in International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology 2010 organized by COMSATS from 21 to 23 December 2010 in Islamabad, Pakistan. |
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CLE is participating in 13th Oriental COCOSDA (The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques) 2010. O-COCOSDA 2010 will be held at Kathmandu, Nepal on November 24-25, 2010. |
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CLE in collaboration with Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) has developed Urdu Language version of Punjab Government’s Flood Relief Website. |
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CLE in collaboration with National Language Authority (NLA) is organizing Conference on Language and Technology 2010 (CLT10). CLT10 will be held at National Language Authority (NLA), Islamabad on October 23, 2010. |
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